Late last year, president Obama signed a law that makes it possible to indefinitely detain terrorist suspects without any form of trial or due process. Peaceful protesters in Occupy movements all over the world have been labelled as terrorists by the authorities. Initiatives like SOPA promote diligent monitoring of communication channels. Thirty years ago, when Richard Stallman launched the GNU project, and during the three decades that followed, his sometimes extreme views and peculiar antics were ridiculed and disregarded as paranoia - but here we are, 2012, and his once paranoid what-ifs have become reality.

I believe that the attempt to ENFORCE GPL-compatible licenses on developers who don't wish to use it makes people less free. If I were a developer distributing software (I only write small utils for my own use), I feel like I should have the right to distribute MY OWN program either with or without the source code [...]
Honestly, I don't have a problem with licenses that require the source code to be made available together with the binary, as long as *I* am not force to adhere to such a license if I am the author of a particular program, in the name of 'freedom'. If I download somebody else's code and want to modify and distribute it, I have no problems adhering to the terms of their license. But if I write something and distribute it, don't try and tell me that I HAVE to distribute the source code, and then claim the moral high ground.

If you choose to use GPL code in "YOUR OWN" program, it's not entirely yours, and you're choosing to abide by the consequences of that.
If you choose to don't use GPL code... then GPL supposedly "forcing" you to do something with your code doesn't happen, your bitching about it is irrelevant.